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copied!<h3>Definitely yes, there is a different reason for the tool disparity</h3> <hr> <p><em><strong>An IDE is more practical to construct for Java</em></strong></p> <p>Java's strict typing and documented grammar make it possible to write language-parsing IDE tools</p> <p>Ruby's duck typing and documented-by-the-Yacc-source grammar make it quite difficult to do so.</p> <p><em><strong>An IDE is more needed for Java</em></strong></p> <p>Java's verbosity makes code-writing and code-rewriting tools desireable.</p> <p>Ruby's extremely terse nature combined with the typically-no-type-declarations (of course they do appear inline with <code>Type.new</code>) make such things optional.</p> <p><em><strong>Combining the two...</em></strong></p> <p>So the combination of <em>really hard to write</em> coupled with <em>not actually needed</em> results in the balance tipping in favor of people's favorite editors.</p> <p>Giving up vi(1) for an IDE is something I would rather not do, but I do with Java because I need the IDE to write my interface implementations and such, and the fact that it parses Java makes it useful in code completion. Since with Ruby it can't and I don't need it anyway, I stick with vi(1) and TextMate.</p> <p><em><strong>Summary</em></strong></p> <p>Since you aren't buried in code, it's possible to refactor with a few reasonable edits. But while on the subject of "other Ruby developers", my Ruby question is: why does everyone (except me it seems) use function parens? Because in a few % of situations they are needed, and so the "inconsistency" is disturbing?</p>

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